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Cambridge, on mutton chops or beans and bacon." Another 

 old member of the club tells me that the name arose because 

 the members were given to making experiments on "birds 

 and beasts which were before unknown to human palate." 

 He says that hawk and bittern were tried, and that their zeal 

 broke down over an old brown owl, " which was indescrib- 

 able." At any rate, the meetings seemed to have been 

 successful, and to have ended with " a game of mild vingt- 

 et-un." 



Mr. Herbert gives an amusing account of the musical 

 examinations described by my father in his ' Recollections.' 

 Mr. Herbert speaks strongly of his love of music, and adds, 

 "What gave him the greatest delight was some grand symphony 

 or overture of Mozart's or Beethoven's, with their full har- 

 monies." On one occasion Herbert remembers " accompany- 

 ing him to the afternoon service at King's, when we heard a 

 very beautiful anthem. At the end of one of the parts, which 

 was exceedingly impressive, he turned round to me and 

 said, with a deep sigh, ' How's your backbone ?" He often 

 spoke of a feeling of coldness or shivering in his back on 

 hearing beautiful music. 



Besides a love of music, he had certainly at this time 

 a love of fine literature ; and Mr. Cameron tells me that 

 he used to read Shakespeare to my father in his rooms at 

 Christ's, who took much pleasure in it. He also speaks of 

 his " great liking for first-class line engravings, especially 

 those of Raphael Morghen and Miiller ; and he spent hours 

 in the Fitzwilliam Museum in looking over the prints in that 

 collection." 



My father's letters to Fox show how sorely oppressed he 

 felt by the reading for an examination : " I am reading very 

 hard, and have spirits for nothing. I actually have not stuck 

 a beetle this term." His despair over mathematics must 

 have been profound, when he expressed a hope that Fox's 

 silence is due to " your being ten fathoms deep in the Mathe- 



